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Concert updates
I recently went to see Sigur Ros with friend who had an extra ticket. I really enjoyed it. Good energy and great show. Photos below. Tonight I am seeing Death Cub for Cutie again (loved them at Sasquatch) supporting Neil Young… what a weird combination, but “hey hey, my my” 🙂 I decided that tonight…
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Podcast about Famulus and supporting the Scholarly Communications lifecycle
Paul Miller from Talis interviewed Alex and me the other day. You can listen all about our Research Output Repository Platform (codename “Famulus”) and the rest of our tooling in the podcast.
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SWORD plugin binary release
We got requests for a binary release. So I tried creating an installer (checked in) and uploaded the first build. If you encounter problems, let me know. Feel free to go and change the code if you want 🙂 OfficeSWORD codeplex project.
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Research-Output Repository Platform (codename Famulus) Beta 1 is Live!
I am soooo excited to announce the first public beta release of the Research-Output Repository Platform (codename “Famulus”)*. It’s been a lot of fun working on Famulus for the last few months and the entire team is extremely excited to make it available to the community. Here’s the intro from the download page. MSR’s Research…
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SWORD plugin for Word 2007
When we started thinking about what we could do to support researchers with tools and services, interoperability with existing formats, protocols, and services was amongst our primary goals. The Conference Management Tool (CMT), eJournal, Chem4Word, Creative Commons plugin for Office 2007, “Famulus”, etc. are all trying to implement as many of the community standards that…
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Oh dear…
I am seriously embarrassed that Microsoft produced this video 🙁 And I am scheduled to attend PDC08 🙁
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What happened to MEST? Why are we talking about the Web?
Bill de h ra made a comment on Stefan Tilkov‘s post about our “How to GET a Cup of Coffee” article… Q205: “I feel that I have learned a lot from the discussions with the REST folks and together with Jim we hope to move that understanding forward to service-oriented computing with our upcoming MEST paper.”…
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“How to GET a Cup of Coffee”
My “web book” co-authors (Jim and Ian) and I worked on a fun article for InfoQ about how Web technologies could be used to support a “cup of coffee ordering” scenario. It was really fun working on the article and I am pleased with the ideas conveyed. Your comments/feedback are more than welcome! “How to…
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“Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining Services”
Our own Dan Fay (eScience blog) has a great post about data mining services in the cloud. “So for fun – I downloaded a csv file of a stream gauge near Redmond into Excel and ran the “Highlight Exceptions” tool to find outliers in the dataset – it read the table, uploaded it to the…
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“I’m a PC” ad campaign
After all the buzz about the Seinfeld ads, Microsoft announced the “I’m a PC” campaign. Clever me finds. Finally, something creative from Microsoft. I’ve said in the past how much I love the Apple ads (not just the “I’m a PC, I’m a Mac” ones but everything that Apple does. It’s funny how people get…